1. Overview

This manual documents YAFC. YAFC is quite a powerful ftp client. It is a console interface to the ftp protocol. If you're looking for a nice GUI client, Yafc is not for you. If you, however, use ftp often and want a fast, powerful, friendly client Yafc is here for you...

Some of the features are recursive transfers, nohup transfers, colored ls, cached directory listings, autologin and bookmarks, powerful aliases and extensive tab completion. It has also support for Kerberos authentication.

This manual is incomplete, and possibly out of date. If you would like to improve this manual, please send a message to yafc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.

1.0.1 Bugs		Reporting bugs and requests
1.0.2 Obtaining Yafc		Where to get Yafc
1.0.3 Motivation		Why Yafc was written

1.0.1 Bugs

Please report bugs to yafc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. Before reporting a bug, please verify you're using the latest version (check the ftp site.) You can get the version number of your copy of yafc with the command yafc --version.

When reporting bugs, please include information on what machine and operating system, including versions, you are running, an example for me to reproduce (use the --trace option) and a patch if you have one.

1.0.2 Obtaining Yafc

Yafc homepage

http://yafc.sourceforge.net/

Yafc SourceForge Project Page

http://sourceforge.net/projects/yafc/

Yafc official FTP site

ftp://yafc.sourceforge.net/pub/yafc/

1.0.3 Motivation

Yafc was created because I needed a good ftp client. The standard BSD ftp client lacks tab completion, something I've become used to and can't live without. Of course, both Lftp and NcFtp has tab completion, but not good enough for me :-). Also, I needed a client that understood Kerberos4 authentication, because that's the security system used a KTH (The Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, where I am studying.)

But perhaps most important, I needed a fun project to work on :-)